Ehem, ARM

[Iain Buclaw]

On 15 November 2013 09:45, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 09:20:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 08:54:21 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 08:24:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would it make sense to use dmd for linux/x86 to cross-compile to
>>>> Android/x86 or is this a job for ldc/gdc only?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would say ldc/gdc only, as LLVM/gcc are the supported NDK toolchains
>>> and dmd lacks an ARM backend.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'm aware of these facts, but I don't think they matter.  For one,
>> dmd not having an ARM backend doesn't impact me since I'm targeting
>> Android/x86 for now, :) as stated earlier.  I don't think it's relevant
>> what toolchains are integrated into the NDK as, for example, the Free
>> Pascal compiler can now compile to Android and it isn't based on gcc or
>> llvm:
>>
>> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android
>>
>> I think the bigger issue is that llvm/gcc and therefore ldc/gdc have
>> support for cross-compilation, but I don't know the status of
>> cross-compiling support with dmd.
>>
>
> Yes, but FreePascal already had an ARM backend before they started with
> Android, and cross-compiling support infrastructure.
>
> As far as I know dmd does not support cross compiling.
>
> --
> Paulo
>


-m32/-m64 is the closest you'll get to a cross-compilation in dmd. ;-)

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Iain Buclaw

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